Various privacy complaints about StreetView in Australia

The Daily Mail has published an article today with a variety of complaints that people have aired against the new StreetView imagery in Australia.

The first one is quite interesting. A guy lost his best friend in a boating accident, and drunk himself stupid to dull the pain. When he got home, he collapsed on the grass and fell asleep, where Google snapped his photo. The image has since been removed, but you can see a screencap of it here.

Others include a woman who saw her recently deceased father in front of his house (which “renews the raw loss”), and another woman that was pleased to find herself in the imagery, working hard in the garden.

StreetView is coming to Britain soon, and they’re already calling it a “gross invasion of privacy”.

Do you agree with that? Or is it acceptable because it’s all taken from public property?